Obama spoke a word that is shocking to hear from a US president in regard to the West’s actions towards the Islamic world: “colonialism.” A Russian president has yet to speak this word in regard to Soviet actions in regard to Eastern Europe. Obama admitted the Cold War use of Muslim nations as “proxies”; Soviet Moscow also used Cold War proxies, but no Russian leader is yet up to admitting it. Obama admitted to US involvement in the toppling of Iran’s elected prime minister in 1953; no Russian leader had yet admitted Soviet Moscow’s involvement in toppling the elected presidents of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in 1940. Obama did not defend the invasion of Iraq, but called it a “war of choice.” Russia still defends the Soviet invasion and occupation of the Baltics, and even calls it a free, legal and heroic joining of those countries with the Soviet entity. Obama spoke of the large and small humiliations and sufferings experienced by Palestinians through occupation; no Russian leader has admitted to any humiliations or suffering brought to the Baltics through Soviet occupation, but denies that there even was such a thing. Obama condemned Holocaust denial as “baseless… ignorant… hateful.” No Russian leader has ever described Moscow’s ongoing denial of a Soviet Baltic occupation as baseless, ignorant and hateful, but continues to instead promote such denial. Obama condemned violence and praised the non-violent struggles of South Africa and of African Americans for justice. Russia does not praise the precisely similar non-violent struggle of Eastern Europeans for freedom -- Putin even calls the collapse of the Soviet Union as the greatest catastrophe of the 20th Century! Obama stressed his opposition to Westerners “dictating what clothes a Muslim woman should wear;” Russia continues to dictate what statues its neighbours should or should not have in their capitals.

People might be enamored with Obama but actions speak louder than words. NOTHING he has done does anything but enhance him. He woos the Arab people but what is he doing them in Iraq and Afganistan? He's going to "fix" the economy but what has he DONE to the economy? When your in debt, do you solve the problem by spending money? In his case, He's counterfeiting more money than Bush and rest of them combined. The American people do not where he came from. His grandmother says he was born in Kenya. He has not produced a birth certificate showing where he was born. With politicians, you have a right and duty to consider them guilty until proven innocence. After all, there asking for control of your life, liberty and property.